Waking Night Staff

Do you have a background of working with children with learning disabilities? Are you someone who enjoys working in a rewarding, supportive, and challenging environment? Can you work with a diverse range of stakeholders in an inclusive and accessible way? We have an exciting opportunity within our Families, Children and Learning Directorate where you will get to make a real difference in the lives of children with learning difficulties. Every team member plays a vital part in helping our young people to thrive, and as a highly successful team we support each other to deliver our service with fairness and inclusivity. We are committed to delivering an outstanding service and to making Health and Disability Services accessible to everyone.

Rainbow Lodge is a new children's home due to open mid April in the Woodingdean area. We will provide full-time placements for young people with learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge between the ages of 5 and 17. Staff will work hard to create a positive, safe, stimulating, and homely environment in which each young person's specific needs are met and they are supported to develop and learn new skills while having fun. Particular emphasis is given to those skills that promote independence.

As a Home Care Support Worker, you will:

• Support our young people from diverse backgrounds with intimate personal care when required.
• Use a range of inclusive and accessible communication tools to help our young people express themselves.
• Undertake a range of domestic tasks including cleaning, shopping, providing freshly prepared meals.
• Support your colleagues and yourself to stay safe during times of challenging behaviour.

You will be someone with:

• The experience of looking after children with learning disabilities.
• Inclusive and accessible communication skills for interaction with service users, families, social workers, and medical professionals.
• The ability to apply restrictive interventions to support young people in line with their behaviour support plans.
• A clear Enhanced DBS Certificate.

Benefits:

• Funding and support within two years for a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare (or equivalent qualification).
• Support with in-house training to improve skills and knowledge.
• An opportunity to increase your skill and experience for future roles within social care, education and childcare.
• Enhancements over weekends, and bank holidays.

You will need to be able to work a 4-week rolling rota as follows: Night shifts: 9.15pm to 7.15am. There is an expectation waking night staff will attend one team meeting a month and undertake necessary training which is included in number of hours worked.

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only. We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration.

We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.